Pandoro

Name: Pandoro
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 500g strong flour; 5 eggs and 2 yolks; 200g butter, softened; 150g sugar; 15g fresh yeast and a pinch of salt; Vanilla and lemon zest; Icing sugar, to dust

Pandoro/pan-DOH-roh/

Also known as: Pandoro di Verona, Italian Christmas Star Cake

About this dish

A tall, star-shaped golden sweet bread from Verona, buttery and light, dusted with vanilla icing sugar.

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Ingredients

🌾500g strong flour

🥚5 eggs and 2 yolks

🧈200g butter, softened

🍬150g sugar

🧂15g fresh yeast and a pinch of salt

🌼Vanilla and lemon zest

🍚Icing sugar, to dust

Method

Serves 3

Make a starter with some flour, yeast, sugar and an egg yolk and leave until bubbly.

Add the rest of the flour, eggs and sugar in stages, kneading and rising between each.

Laminate the dough with the butter by rolling and folding it three times.

Shape into a ball, place in a buttered star-shaped mould and leave to rise to the top.

Bake at 170°C (340°F) for about 45 minutes, cool upside down, and dust with icing sugar to serve.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Pandoro is Verona's Christmas cake and Italy's great rival to panettone; it's made over several days of rising.

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